Klas "Klasse" Möllberg (born 21 April 1948) is a Swedish musician and actor.

Career

Möllberg started performing when he was 18 years old. Later he met the 12 years older musician Lasse Lundberg who influenced him to a music style which he would reflect in his works in the future. Möllberg is best known for his role as Banarne in ''

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''. He met "Trazan" (

Lasse Åberg Lars Gunnar Åberg (born 5 May 1940), known professionally as Lasse Åberg, is a Swedish comedian, actor, musician, film director and artist. Between 1960 and 1964 he studied at the Konstfack department of graphic design. Åberg has produced som ...

) for first time in

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where Möllberg was playing with a band. They are also members of Electric Banana Band. They also appeared in the 1985 film ''

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''. Möllberg hosted the 1992

Sveriges Television's Christmas calendar ''Swedish Television's Christmas calendar'' () previously ''Swedish Television's Advent calendar'' () is a Christmas calendar TV series mainly for children, broadcast by Sveriges Television (Sweden's national public television broadcaster) sin ...

, ''

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''. In 2009, he competed in the TV program ''

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'' and finished in 2nd place.

References

Sources

Official website
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